twitter-api

twitter request limit

hi guys , Regarding the twitter API request limit, how does one counts as a request? I'm using python-twitter, so if I have client = twitter.Api(username='acc',password='pw') self.client.GetFriends(result[0]) Does this count as 1 request? Or as many as the number of friends I have? I asked this because I have the following code: ...

twitter Rate limit exceeded google app engine

I am using google app engine and would like to download tweets from a given user. I am simply calling http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/USERNAME.json But almost always (About 99% of times) I get "Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 150 requests per hour" does this problem has something to do with Google Ap...

Automating posting of RSS feed to Twitter and FB

How can I take a RSS feed and post it to Twitter and FB account and automate this process? Is this possible? Would appreciate some directions. ...

Get user updates using Twitter Stream API is not working

Hi All, Let say I have the user Snoop Dogg. I would like to have all his public outgoing messages (updates, retweets..) and public incoming messages (replies) using the streaming API I first thought that the following will do. http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?follow=3004231 But I just discovered that get only the inc...

another twitter oAuth cURL access token request that fails

The following function gives a validation error instead of the token: failed to validate oAuth signature and token function request_token() { // Set url $url = $this->site.$this->request_token_path; // http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token // Params to pass to twitter and create signature $params['oauth_consumer_...

fetch tweets through location

Can I fetch all the tweets from users of a particular location filtered by a particular keyword? For example, I want to look up all the tweets made during a day in a particular location with a keyword "XYZ". Can this be done? ...

Noob Question: Python + Twitter + App Engine - Oauth

I'm sorry but I'm having some trouble implementing Oauth within my app engine python project. I've been working from http://github.com/tav/tweetapp, but I don't think I have a strong enough grasp on this platform to understand how to implement this class within my main.py I'm building the rest of my app in. This maybe a feeble attempt,...

how to trigger an event whenever a tweet is updated

I wanted to know how to trigger an event (say. storing a tweet from a particular user in a text file or mailing it etc.) when a particular user updates his tweets. Do we need to poll for the updates every few seconds or is there any other way out. ...

Utilizing Twitter's Streaming API w/ jQuery?

Twitter's Streaming API seems to provide a way to receive realtime tweets without constantly polling for new data. Would it be possible to make use of this API using jQuery (or maybe falling back to pure JS)? As far as I can tell, there's no built-in way for jQuery to stream an HTTP request with JSON. Is that correct, or did I miss some...

Posting tweets using API secrets for own app eg "via <myApp>"

Hey Guys I originally used this tutorial - http://icodeblog.com/2009/07/09/integrating-twitter-into-your-applications/ to put twitter into my app. It works great, however, the tweets say 'via API' - I don't want this. I'd like it to say 'via myApp' - (I have registered my app with Twitter and have the secrets etc. If you've done this...

Best Twitter Framework for Python on App Engine?

I'm looking to incorporate twitter API features into an app engine project that I'm working on. I'm relatively new to both app engine and python, so I'm wondering what modules/frameworks I should use to most easily incorporate twitter, and to facilitate twitter oauth? I've seen: python-twitter tipfy gaema ...

Why are there pluses ( + ) in my oAuth tweets?

Ive cracked oAuth and have my class file for it. I'm at the last stage of posting a tweet and all works except all the words are joined with a plus sign in the tweet. Changing anything results in the signature been incorrect and twitter returns 401 error. So how does one remove the pluses? Post function below: function post($token, $t...

I can get follower_count, but what about FOLLOWING count for twitter users?

I can't find any explanation for this ANYWHERE. Part of the value of a twitter account is a low following:follower ratio (at least it's correlated with high-profile twitter accounts). But I can't seem to obtain the following count through the API. Does anyone know why? Or if I'm missing something, where can I find info about this? Th...

android twitter outh tutorial callback problem

Trying the following tutorial http://www.androidsdkforum.com/android-sdk-development/3-oauth-twitter.html i am having trouble understanding callback URL my twitter app name is "faisal-android" and my call back url i defined in code is myapp://wozzon-android and having entry in xml file as <intent-filter> ...

How should I use Twitter API in java?

I want to develop a web application that uses the Twitter API. Where can i find examples thanks for replay. I have downloaded an app from this site - github.com/yusuke/sign-in-with-twitter I have deployed and its running, but its giving javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: Property 'userId' not found on type twitter4j.Twitter this excep...

How to use OAUTH for twitter authentication in an iPhone application?

I want to integrate twitter oauth authentication in my iPhone application but I am not able to receive the request token and access token. Can anyone please tell me the exact flow and the functions in the MGTwitter engine library of twitter for iPhone app authentication. ...

How do I fix a "JSONDecodeError: No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0)"?

I'm trying to get Twitter API search results for a given hashtag using Python, but I'm having trouble with this "No JSON object could be decoded" error. I had to add the extra % towards the end of the URL to prevent a string formatting error. Could this JSON error be related to the extra %, or is it caused by something else? Any suggesti...

Any way to get Twitter user email?

Is there any way to get Twitter user email from Twitter API? Facebook (FBQL) provides this data in the hashed form so that you can encrypt email and then compare to hashed one. ...

Help me for Json unknown problem

I'm working with a project that use Twitter API to get mentions timeline of my account and it return as Json, problem is I cant run it because of this error Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file s...

twitter api getting tweets(posts)

is there a way to get tweets from some specific user and since some time of period? I see that statuses/user_timeline has the screen_name param which I can search for specific user's tweets but can't filter these tweets by date created. so if I want to get this user's past 1 week tweets what are some ways to do it? ...